Sentence examples for musical prayer from inspiring English sources

There is plenty of masterly notated sonic brimstone, not to mention the "blue-orange lava" Messiaen cited in a preface, but the piece ends with a sublime, trancelike meditation for violin and piano, an unforgettable musical prayer.

How I, a Wasp, ended up in a Chabad woman's living room listening to Wolfe belt out the Lubavitcher Moshiach anthem — a musical prayer for the coming of the Messiah — is a longer story, though one I share with other Gentiles and secular Jews who identify as spiritual seekers.

How I, a Wasp, ended up in a Chabad woman's living room listening to Wolfe belt out the Lubavitcher Moshiach anthem a musical prayer for the coming of the Messiah is a longer story, though one I share with other Gentiles and secular Jews who identify as spiritual seekers.

At temple, a Hazzan, or Cantor, often with special training and a status near the Rabbi's in importance, leads the congregation in frequent musical prayer.

Musical prayer is intensely spiritual, regardless of the size of the group; in Judaism, singing can occur alone, in small groups, or in a large congregation and retain its spirituality.

I like to call this group the "Spontaneous Jewish Choir" and its participants "musical gabbaim" (prayer assistants), but this singing core is not a new idea at all.

In the old days, the best cantors — Jewish clergy who specialize in the musical interpretation of prayer — were stars.

A series of seminars, feasts, musical events and prayer sessions held for visiting pilgrims have emphasised the parallels between her life's work and Pope Francis's central message of social justice and humility.

The program began just before noon with a musical selection, a prayer and a recitation of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation — the final version was not sent out until later that day — by a local planter who had freed his slaves a quarter-century earlier.

They have stated that only by breaking the law, only by constructing lurid spectacles, can they capture the world's attention; and, with their musical protest Punk Prayer – Mother of God, Chase Putin Away! inside Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, and their subsequent imprisonment, they certainly have. .

The double-bass-drumming, cymbal crashes, and chugga-chugga-chugga-chugga-waaahing of four Iraqi kids raised on bootleg cassette tapes and glitchy MP3s of the last 30 years of heavy metal sound so different from the everyday Baghdad musical diet of prayer calls and Arab techno that, mixed together, they're like your worst-ever ketamine overdose at a fetish party you shouldn't have been at anyway.